Essays audiobooks

Two Years before the Mast

By: Richard Henry Dana Jr.

Narrated by: Bernard Mayes

Length: 16 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog - 31 Stories about Family, Courage, and How to Listen

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories about Family, Courage, and How to ListenLearning About Family Learning to Have Courage Learning to Listen Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 31 Stories about Who's in Charge, How to Love a Cat, and Be Your Best

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories about Who's in Charge, How to Love a Cat, and Be Your BestLearning Who's in Charge Learning to Love the Cat Learning to Be My Best Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 20 Stories about Laughter and Accepting Help

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 1 hour 58 minutes

Abridged: No

20 Stories about Laughter and Accepting HelpLearning to Laugh Learning to Accept Help Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 30 Stories about Play, What's Important, and Belief

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden & Fred Stella

Length: 3 hours 13 minutes

Abridged: No

30 Stories about Play, What's Important, and BeliefLearning to Play Learning What's Important Learning to Believe Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog - 34 Stories about Overcoming Adversity, Healing, and How to Say Goodbye

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 3 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

For thousands of years, dogs have been cherished as devoted companions and exuberant playmates—their unconditional love, limitless affection and unwavering loyalty never fail to melt our hearts. The stories in Chicken Soup for the Dog Lover's Soul truly capture the special joy these four-legged creatures bring to our lives and hearts. The... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Cat - 20 Stories about Love and Letting Go

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Teri Clark Linden

Length: 2 hours 16 minutes

Abridged: No

20 Stories about Love and Letting GoLearning About Love Learning to Let Go Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: What I Learned from the Dog - 36 Stories about Putting Things in Perspective, Kindness, and Unconditional Love

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen & Amy Newmark

Narrated by: Joyce Bean & Phil Gigante

Length: 3 hours 11 minutes

Abridged: No

36 Stories about Putting Things in Perspective, Kindness, and Unconditional LoveLearning to Put Things in Perspective Learning to Be Kinder Learning About Unconditional Love Read more

Kasey to the Rescue

By: Ellen Rogers

Narrated by: Joyce Bean

Length: 8 hours 45 minutes

Abridged: No

A single mother of five, Ellen Rogers has endured her fair share of tragedy, having lost both her first husband and stepdaughter to cancer. But nothing could have prepared Rogers for the June 2005 car accident that left her son Ned—now twenty-five years old—a quadriplegic with a brain injury. The road to Ned's recovery was long and discouraging,... Read more

A Small Furry Prayer

By: Steven Kotler

Narrated by: Kevin Foley

Length: 9 hours 14 minutes

Abridged: No

Steven Kotler was forty years old, single, and facing an existential crisis when he met Lila, a woman devoted to animal rescue. "Love me, love my dogs" was her rule, and Steven took it to heart. Spurred to move by a housing crisis in Los Angeles, Steven, Lila, and their eight dogs—then ten, then twenty, and then they lost count—bought a... Read more

I Remember Nothing

By: Nora Ephron

Narrated by: Nora Ephron

Length: 3 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

Nora Ephron returns with her first audiobook since the astounding success of I Feel Bad About My Neck, taking a cool, hard, hilarious look at the past, the present, and the future, bemoaning the vicissitudes of modern life, and recalling with her signature clarity and wisdom everything she hasn’t (yet) forgotten.

Ephron writes about falling hard... Read more

Talk Show

By: Dick Cavett

Narrated by: Dick Cavett

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

The legendary talk show host's humorous reminiscences and pointed commentary on the great figures he has known, and culture and politics today For years, Dick Cavett played host to the nation's most famous personalities on his late-night talk show. In this humorous and evocative book, we get to hear Cavett's best tales, as he recounts great... Read more

Düsseldorfer Sagen und Legenden

By: Nadine Boos

Narrated by: Uve Teschner

Length: TBA

Abridged: No

Es war der 23. Mai 1159 als Papst Hadrian IV. verfügte, dass die Bewohner eines kleinen Dorfes einmal im Jahr fünf Schillinge an St. Ursula in Köln abzuführen hätten. Düsseldorf war damals klein, wirtschaftlich aber bereits von Bedeutung. Trotzdem einige Düsseldorfer das Fährrecht besaßen und auch ein Pfarrkirchlein ihr eigen nannten, stand das... Read more

Underground London

By: Stephen Smith

Narrated by: Karen Cass

Length: 11 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

What is visible to the naked eye has been exhaustively raked over; In UNDERGROUND LONDON, acclaimed travel writer Stephen Smith provides an alternative guide and history of the capital. It's a journey through the passages and tunnels of the city, the bunkers and tunnels, crypts and shadows. As well as being a contemporary tour of underground... Read more

On The Slow Train

By: Michael Williams

Narrated by: Michael Tudor Barnes

Length: 7 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

Brought to you by Penguin.


Never was the sadness of the end of an affair so poignantly expressed than in Flanders and Swann's elegy The Slow Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6OHD2uCpfU

This audiobook will take the reader on the slow train to another era when travel meant more than hurrying from one place to the next, the journey meaning... Read more

They Call Me Baba Booey

By: Gary Dell'Abate & Chad Millman

Narrated by: Gary Dell'Abate

Length: 7 hours 3 minutes

Abridged: No

One of pop culture’s great enduring unsung heroes: Gary Dell’Abate, Howard Stern Show producer, miracle worker, professional good sport, and servant to the King of All Media, for the first time tells the story of his early years and reveals how his chaotic childhood and early obsessions prepared him for life at the center of the greatest show on... Read more

I'm Dreaming of a Black Christmas

By: Lewis Black

Narrated by: Lewis Black

Length: 4 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

From Lewis Black, the uproarious and perpetually apoplectic New York Times-bestselling author and Daily Show regular, comes a ferociously funny book about his least favorite holiday, Christmas.

Christmas is supposed to be a time of peace on earth and goodwill toward all. But not for Lewis Black.

He says humbug to the Christmas tradtitions and... Read more

In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks - Abridged

By: Adam Carolla

Narrated by: Adam Carolla

Length: 6 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: Yes

A couple years back, I was at the Phoenix airport bar.  It was empty except for one heavy-set, gray bearded, grizzled guy who looked like he just rode his donkey into town after a long day of panning for silver in them thar hills.  He ordered a Jack Daniels straight up, and that's when I overheard the young guy with the earring behind the bar... Read more

My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space

By: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Narrated by: Lisa Scottoline & Francesca Serritella

Length: 4 hours 51 minutes

Abridged: No

The incomparable Lisa Scottoline, along with daughter Francesca, is back with more wild and wonderful wit and wisdom: My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space.

Critics and readers loved Lisa Scottoline's first collection of true-life stories, which only encouraged her—now she's back with these all-new, exciting adventures. She's... Read more

Life and Laughing

By: Michael McIntyre

Narrated by: Michael McIntyre

Length: 7 hours 44 minutes

Abridged: No

The riveting, poignant and remarkably honest biography from Britain's biggest comedy star, Michael McIntyre, brought to you by Penguin.

His debut stand-up DVD, Live & Laughing, was the fastest selling of all time.
Now he hosts his own BAFTA nominated BBC1 series, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, and has won the British Comedy Award for Best... Read more

Travels in Siberia

By: Ian Frazier

Narrated by: Ian Frazier

Length: 20 hours 24 minutes

Abridged: No

A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great Plains

In Travels in Siberia, Ian Frazier trains his eye for unforgettable detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the... Read more

Dewey's Nine Lives

By: Vicki Myron

Narrated by: Andrea Gallo

Length: 12 hours 33 minutes

Abridged: No

Vicki Myron follows up her #1 New York Times bestseller Dewey with stories of cats who inspire their owners and includes two brand-new Dewey stories! Dewey's Nine Lives offers nine funny, inspiring, and heartwarming stories about cats—all told from the perspective of "Dewey's Mom," librarian Vicki Myron. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who... Read more

Chicken Soup for the Soul: Runners - 31 Stories of Adventure, Comebacks, and Family Ties

By: Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Amy Newmark ...

Narrated by: Christina Traister & Dan John Miller

Length: 3 hours 30 minutes

Abridged: No

31 Stories of Adventure, Comebacks, and Family TiesComebacks Everyday Adventures Family Ties Read more

Role of a Lifetime

By: James Brown

Narrated by: James Brown

Length: 2 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

We live in a world that all too often operates under the overriding template of self-promotion, embracing a "hooray for me" attitude, and which measures success in increasingly small timeframes dotted with markers of temporal value.

Millions of viewers know James Brown as a sports commentator and former athlete. With ROLE OF A LIFETIME, James... Read more